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Cruise 'Still Processing' Daughter's Birth
(AP)
 AP - Tom Cruise hasn't toned down his enthusiasm at all now that fiancee Katie Holmes has given birth to their daughter.
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PBS Wins 12 Creative Craft Daytime Emmys
(AP)
AP - PBS won a leading 12 Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards on Saturday night, including seven trophies for "Sesame Street."
Singers Vie in 'Sound of Music' Auditions
(AP)
 AP - Call it "Alpine Idol." Aspiring stars strutted their stuff at a Belfast hotel Saturday, hoping to win the part of novitiate-turned-nanny Maria in a big-budget London production of "The Sound of Music."
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Actor DiCaprio Injures Leg on Set
(AP)
 AP - Actor Leonardo DiCaprio suffered a minor leg injury while filming in Mozambique, his publicist said Saturday.
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Broadcasters Focus on Challenge From Web
(AP)
AP - Local television broadcasters, seeing their networks potentially bypassing them in the rush to offer shows and other content online, will meet this week to figure out how to hang onto viewers and dollars.
"Trek" Rediscovered by "Lost" Creator
(E! Online)
 E! Online - Those are the components Paramount Pictures has assembled to revive
its sputtering Star Trek franchise.
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Latino Pop Stars Sing to Support Migrants
(AP)
AP - Mexican pop diva Gloria Trevi, Puerto Rican reggaeton Ivy Queen and Tito El Bambino and other Latino artists are recording a Spanish-language version of the U.S. national anthem in a show of support for migrants in the United States.
PBS Wins 12 Creative Craft Daytime Emmys
(AP)
AP - PBS won a leading 12 Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards on Saturday night, including seven trophies for "Sesame Street."
Broadcasters Focus on Challenge From Web
(AP)
AP - Local television broadcasters, seeing their networks potentially bypassing them in the rush to offer shows and other content online, will meet this week to figure out how to hang onto viewers and dollars.
New Block of Tickets for 'Lord of the Rings' On Sale
(Playbill)
Playbill - The Lord of the Rings, the open-ended theatrical extravaganza in Toronto, has announced a new block of tickets, through Sept. 24, will go on sale April 22.
"Trek" Rediscovered by "Lost" Creator
(E! Online)
E! Online - Those are the components Paramount Pictures has assembled to revive
its sputtering Star Trek franchise.
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Cruise 'Still Processing' Daughter's Birth
(AP)
AP - Tom Cruise hasn't toned down his enthusiasm at all now that fiancee Katie Holmes has given birth to their daughter.
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Actor DiCaprio Injures Leg on Set
(AP)
AP - Actor Leonardo DiCaprio suffered a minor leg injury while filming in Mozambique, his publicist said Saturday.
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'Third Man' Co-Star Alida Valli Dies
(AP)
 AP - Alida Valli, one of Italy's great actresses who co-starred in the 1949 film "The Third Man" and Alfred Hitchcock's "The Paradine Case," died Saturday in Rome, the mayor's office said. No cause of death was given. She was 84.
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Italy's Valli, star of "Third Man," dies
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Alida Valli, one of Italy's most famous
movie actresses, who starred in "The Third Man" and "The
Paradine Case," has died aged 84.
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Judge Orders Charlie Sheen Away From Wife
(AP)
 AP - Charlie Sheen was ordered Friday to at least 300 feet from his estranged wife, Denise Richards, and their two young daughters except during supervised visits, according to court documents.
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'MI3' Director to Do Latest 'Star Trek'
(AP)
 AP - "Mission: Impossible III" director J.J. Abrams is going from Cruise control to warp speed. Abrams has committed to produce the 11th "Star Trek" feature film and there are plans for him to direct as well, Paramount Pictures announced Friday.
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Director, studio at odds over release strategy
(Reuters)
Reuters - In principle, director Alex
Steyermark doesn't object to the near-simultaneous day-and-date
theater/cable/DVD release strategy pioneered by HDNet Films,
the producers of his new comedy-drama "One Last Thing. . . ."
Sorry, Suri: No Paternity Leave for Papa
(E! Online)
 E! Online - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes may have held their tongues during
Suri's birth, but that didn't stop them from holding each other.
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Travolta, Lopez to Star in 'Dallas'
(AP)
 AP - Gurinder Chadha will direct John Travolta and Jennifer Lopez in a big-screen version of the prime-time soap opera "Dallas."
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Latino Pop Stars Sing to Support Migrants
(AP)
AP - Mexican pop diva Gloria Trevi, Puerto Rican reggaeton Ivy Queen and Tito El Bambino and other Latino artists are recording a Spanish-language version of the U.S. national anthem in a show of support for migrants in the United States.
Singers Vie in 'Sound of Music' Auditions
(AP)
AP - Call it "Alpine Idol." Aspiring stars strutted their stuff at a Belfast hotel Saturday, hoping to win the part of novitiate-turned-nanny Maria in a big-budget London production of "The Sound of Music."
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Bassist Edgar Meyer Releases Solo Album
(AP)
 AP - Edgar Meyer has recorded with Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, James Taylor, fiddler Mark O'Connor, banjo player Bela Fleck, among many others. Now he has recorded by himself, cutting a CD of 14 pieces he composed. Through the manipulations of multitrack recording, he performs on 10 different instruments — three kinds of basses, two types of mandolins plus piano, guitar, banjo, dobro and gamba.
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Latin music finds its way to Main Street, USA
(Reuters)
Reuters - Forget Miami, Los Angeles and New York.
The next big Latin music explosion is erupting in secondary
markets across the United States, and the numbers are there to
back it up.
Digital sales boost indie jazz labels
(Reuters)
Reuters - Though it is deemed a national
treasure for its innately American legacy, jazz is plagued with
an identity crisis.
Indie label's artist trading cards click with fans
(Reuters)
Reuters - While most indie labels look to
the Internet and other new-media ventures to promote their
artists, Trustkill Records was inspired by a more traditional
form of media: the baseball card.
Music biz puts "Signatures" on deal with baseball
(Reuters)
Reuters - Whether it's rock 'n' roll at an
NFL tailgate party or the stadium public-address system blaring
Metallica's "Enter Sandman" when New York Yankees reliever
Mariano Rivera takes the mound, sports and music have always
gone hand in hand.
Neil Young's protest album heads to Internet first
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Neil Young's newly recorded protest
album "Living With War," including a song calling for the
impeachment of President Bush, will be posted for free Internet
streaming next week, his label said on Friday.
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More Doors opening with concert downloads
(Reuters)
 Reuters - As part of the Doors'
40th-anniversary celebration, the band will soon make 12
concerts from 1967 to 1970 available for download from its Web
site, TheDoors.com.
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Godsmack's Erna digs deep into his pain
(Reuters)
Reuters - Don't say the M-word to Godsmack
frontman Sully Erna. "We're not some metal band," he says. "I
really look at us as hard rock."
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